Cross-Side Retention After Confidential Plaintiff Access State
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24bff469
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Cross-SideRetentionAfterConfidentialPlaintiffAccessState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer, having been retained by one party in an adversarial proceeding and having gained access to that party's confidential documents, communications, and strategic information in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner, is subsequently approached by the opposing party to provide services in the same proceeding — creating a structural prohibition on accepting the cross-side retention because the engineer cannot credibly partition the confidential knowledge gained from the first party, and because the opposing party's motivation for retention is transparently linked to the engineer's prior access rather than independent professional merit.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer, having been retained by one party in an adversarial proceeding and having gained access to that party's confidential documents, communications, and strategic information in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner, is subsequently approached by the opposing party to provide services in the same proceeding — creating a structural prohibition on accepting the cross-side retention because the engineer cannot credibly partition the confidential knowledge gained from the first party, and because the opposing party's motivation for retention is transparently linked to the engineer's prior access rather than independent professional merit.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A, throughout his first analysis, had access to information, documents, etc., that were made available to him by the plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner
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rdfs:comment "State in which a professional engineer, having been retained by one party in an adversarial proceeding and having gained access to that party's confidential documents, communications, and strategic information in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner, is subsequently approached by the opposing party to provide services in the same proceeding — creating a structural prohibition on accepting the cross-side retention because the engineer cannot credibly partition the confidential knowledge gained from the first party, and because the opposing party's motivation for retention is transparently linked to the engineer's prior access rather than independent professional merit." ;
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
24bff46955099dd8...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
106
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T00:41:39.456182+00:00
First Discovered In Case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:41:39.456182+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 106 Extraction